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The answer to AI’s energy needs could be blowing in the wind
Can offshore wind farms feed power-hungry AI data centers?
Giants like Microsoft and Google are throwing everything they’ve got into developing the best AI tools and inserting them into every conceivable platform, from gaming to social media, work apps, and search. Data centers under construction in North America combined would need as much energy as all the households in the San Francisco metro area annually, according to a February report from real estate services company JLL. “Data center computing is super power hungry to begin with, and then AI is just a level of magnitude higher than that,” says Stephen Maldonado, research analyst for North America wind at Wood Mackenzie.
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